[Fedora TeX Live] retiring xdvipdfmx package

Jindrich Novy jnovy at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 09:31:31 CEST 2012


On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 07:43:00AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I've been seeing broken builddeps for xdvipdfmx in rawhide:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488651
> 
> Since texlive 2012 is going into rawhide, I believe xdvipdfmx package
> should be retired.  Any thoughts?

Yes please. TeX Live 2012 now ships its own xdvipdfmx and because it
would be much more easier to maintain the TeX Live variant, then it
makes sense to retire it (so that we won't have two copies of the same
thing in Fedora).

Best,
Jindrich

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